DHS IT programs face pivotal decisions
Several major Homeland Security Department technology programs could reach a crossroads before the end of the fiscal year, even as the department works without a full complement of senior technology officials.
Who's at home for DHS
The Homeland Security Department doesn't maintain a threat advisory system on internal operations.
Homeland Security gets acting deputy CIO
Rear Adm. Ronald T. Hewitt, the Coast Guard's assistant commandant for command, control, communications and computers and CIO, has been named acting deputy CIO of the Homeland Security Department.
Steve Cooper to leave DHS
The Homeland Security Department's first CIO is resigning, he confirmed today.
CISO Exchange wants to boost security grades
The Chief Information Security Officers Exchange brings together key stakeholders in federal IT security, Justice Department CIO Vance Hitch said today at FOSE.
Pennsylvania plans first-response GIS
Pennsylvania officials are using a $603,000 grant from the Homeland Security Department to pump up the state's emergency response system with geospatial tools.
DHS steps up efforts to integrate geospatial apps
The Homeland Security Department this summer will experience a geospatial revolution of sorts.
Massive federal wireless project delayed
The government has advised prospective vendors that it has delayed its schedule and changed its requirements for a multibillion-dollar wireless makeover.
Former DHS official joins IT company
Mark J. Emery, former deputy CIO of the Homeland Security Department, has joined PEC Solutions Inc. as vice president of the Managed Services Division.
Security wars move to new turf
Andy Purdy, acting director of the National Cyber Security Division and U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team since April 2003, is the Homeland Security Department's lightning rod for preventing, responding to and recovering from electronic attacks.
Auditors: Questions hang over passenger-screening system
Homeland Security's fledgling passenger-screening system faces uncertainties in schedule, cost, functionality and privacy impact, a new GAO report concludes.
Future of immigration systems makeover unclear
Citizenship and Immigration Services has apparently set aside its plans for a sweeping systems integration project.
Administration needs more time on e-passport rollout, DHS official says
Technology problems will compel the Bush administration to ask Congress for another extension of the deadline for rolling out electronic passports, a senior Homeland Security Department official told a Senate subcommittee last week.
New secretary plots realignment at DHS
The change in leadership at the Homeland Security Department, coupled with pressure for reorganization from Congress, has pushed decisions on IT projects to the back burner ' at least temporarily.
GAO cites lingering problems with student visa system
The Homeland Security Department's online system for processing information about foreign students continues to pose problems for the students and the schools they attend.
Customs automation project still troubled, GAO says
The Homeland Security Department's Automated Commercial Environment project faces further cost and schedule overruns unless it tightens program management, according to a new report.
DHS buys more name analysis tools
The Homeland Security Department's Customs and Border Protection agency has signed a sole-source contract with Language Analysis Systems Inc. for software to help analyze names of people.
Lawmakers rip DHS grant cuts, consider reorganization
The Senate Homeland Security Committee takes the administration to task for proposed reductions in homeland security grants to state and local governments.
House eyes DHS shake-up
House panel to weigh merger of the Border and Transportation Security Directorate's Customs and Border Protection agency with its Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm.
Should the FBI wait for governmentwide case management app?
One of the FBI's options for a case management system is to wait until the Federal Investigative Case Management System comes online.
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